Justice for Ourselves (eBook)

Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

John G. Deal, Marienne E. Julienne, Brent Tarter (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
324 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5138-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery ';Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery,' wrote Frederick Douglass in 1862, ';but only begins.' The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment altered a legal status; to make freedom a reality represented a different challenge altogether.Justice for Ourselves tells the stories of remarkable Black men and women in postCivil War Virginia who persevered in the face of overwhelming barriers to seek their freedom and create a new world for themselves and future generations. Drawing on the life stories of individuals from all regions of the statepolitical leaders, teachers, ministers, journalists, and entrepreneursJustice for Ourselves recounts their quests to attain full American citizenship and economic independence before the onset of Jim Crow repression. Centering Black voices, this book includes tales of opportunities seized and opportunities lost and will reshape the narrative of Black history and the history of Virginia in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: The American South Series
• Reihe/Serie: The American South Series
• Vorwort: Jennifer McClellan
• Zusatzinfo: 39 b&w illus., 2 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Alexandria • Alfred William Harris • American Missionary Association • Armistead Green • artisans and skilled workers • Attorneys • Buckingham County • Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands • Charles City County • CHarlotte County • Chesterfield County • churches and ministers • civic and service organizations • Civil War • Community • confederate army • confederate states of America • Conservative Party • Constitution • Convention of 1867–68 • Convention of 1901–2 • Cumberland County • Daniel M. Morton • Disfranchisement • Elections • Elizabeth City County • Emancipation Proclamation • Emigration • Entrepreneurs • Equal Rights • Essex county • Families and Children • farmville • Fence Law of 1866 • Fifteenth Amendment • fort monroe • Fourteenth Amendment • free blacks • Freedmen’s Bureau • freedom • free labor economy • Funding Act of 1871 • General Assembly • Gloucester County • Goochland County • Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers • Halifax County • hampton • Hampton University • Hanover County • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Ideal • James Apostle Fields • James P. Goodwyn • James William D. Bland • Jim Crow • Justice • labor organizations • Lewis Lindsey • Literacy • Lynchburg • lynching • Maria Griffin • Mecklenburg County • newport news • Newspapers • Norfolk • Nottoway County • Peter George Morgan • Peter Jacob Carter • Petersburg • Portsmouth • Public Debt • Race • Racism • reconstruction • Republican Party • Richmond • Roanoke • Robert Gilbert Griffin • Samuel F. Kelso • schools • Segregation • South • Suffrage • Thomas Bayne • united states army • Virginia State University • William Faulcon • William Gilliam
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5138-0 / 0813951380
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5138-6 / 9780813951386